The Stroller: Pricey parking

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Tracy Smith of Spartanburg is delighted that a lower-cost airline has come to the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport but says the savings are offset by higher parking prices.

Tracy Smith of Spartanburg is delighted that a lower-cost airline has come to the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport but says the savings are offset by higher parking prices. “Unless something is done to reduce the parking rates, it will continue to be cheaper, even with the higher gasoline prices, to drive to Charlotte and pay $6 a day to park in a garage than pay $12 a day in Spartanburg,” she says, hoping airport officials are listening. “Yes, I could park in long-term parking at Greenville-Spartanburg and pay $4 a day, however, when my flight leaves at 6 a.m. and I have to be in the terminal no later than 5 a.m., it is pretty dark in that parking lot, especially when you are a woman walking alone from the back end of the lot. Greenville-Spartanburg needs a wake-up call and lower their garage parking rates or I will continue to fly out of Charlotte.”

‘TEACHABLE MOMENT': Roy Lowe of Union is more than rubbing it in with his latest assessment of the job President Barack Obama is doing. “With gasoline prices rising almost as fast as his deficit spending, here is a teachable moment,” says Mr. Lowe. “Since it has been reported that jobs created by his stimulus package have cost the taxpayer more than $200,000 each, why not start building refineries and drilling for U.S. oil? Look at the jobs this would create. He also could hire investigators to help find his birth certificate and college transcript. But I digress. Simple solutions are above his pay grade. It is much easier to blame George W. Bush or those naysayers who understand the financial crisis that we are in.”

1801 OR 1805?: Randy Faulkner of Chesnee clears up the question about the University of South Carolina's beginnings: “Keith Lee accurately stated that USC was founded in 1801, however, it did not open its doors for students until 1805.”

MORE WISDOM from Spartanburg's Jack Rutter: “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”

ODDS AND ENDS: Saturday would be a good day to get those locks trimmed, and there would be no better place to be under the clippers than Studio 9 Hair Salon in Boiling Springs. That's because one of the shop's hair stylists, Sherry White, is going to donate her income that day to families of two Boiling Springs Elementary School students who had bone marrow transplants last month. These families, who will be spending many months away at medical facilities while their children recover, need our help, so head on over to Studio 9 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Ladies, you'll get a dry cut and style for $15; the same for men for $10. You'll find the salon two doors south of Sonic and across from Hardee's on Highway 9.

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